So California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited The Vatican this past week and when he and Pope Frank wandered into St. Peter’s Basilica the entire building spontaneously burst into flames.
They both blamed global warming.
Thank you, thank you, your too kind - I’m here in the lounge until Thursday - tip your waitress and try the veal - it’s delish!
Anyway, this installment of About Last Week will be short and silly – I began writing the regular ALW hours ago, then realized that the concept needed a fuller exploration, and I just couldn’t stop typing.
Well, that and the cocaine.
Anyhoo, that will be posted tomorrow I hope.
As for now, here are a couple of funnies you should consider letting be funny at you.
First, the Comedy Central show from a depressingly long time ago called “Strangers with Candy.”
Amy Sedaris stars (and a bunch of people including Stephen Colbert – if his current audience ever saw this show they would shriek in woke horror) in the show which follows the travails of a 40-something hooker/junkie who returns how after running away 25 years before and, of course, goes back to high school.
It’s available in a number of places, but Paramount-Plus is its official home.
To decide if it’s for you, here are a few clips – not even the funniest bits of the show – and one quick quote from said montage:
“You don't want to beat me or screw me? What kind of marriage is this? Bring a book...”
And SCTV is back on the air!
Well, YouTube – here’s the “Christmas Party” episode in which the comedy recreates their recreations of famous people at a cheapo-party.
Remember – He has an antidote for you no bigger than a monkey’s tail.
And no epigram but a factoid from the book “Metropolis, a History of the City “by Ben Wilson.
A good book with fascinating stuff like this – just ignore when he goes too climate-y:
“One of the earliest discovered tablets (from a dig at Uruk, one of the oldest city’s ever)is a receipt written in clay: 29,086 measures, 37 months, Kushim….All very routine. But remember the name: Kushim is the very first person in history whose name we know. Kushim was not a king or a priest, warrior or poet…our earliest known individual was a diligent Urukian bean counter who spent his totting up accounts and writing receipts.”
So to all the accountants out there, it seems that it is you who are a member of the world’s oldest profession!
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